[1] Spleen.

[2] The volumes were a Bible and a Psalter "coverit with fine purpour velvet." Cf. the Diurnal of Occurrents, September 2, 1561, which gives some additional details, and mentions that the child "delivered also to her hieness three writings, the tenour whereof is uncertain."

[3] Gainful.

[4] Could.

[5] Which.

[6] MS. to them.

[7] Beseeching.

[8] Goodwill.

[9] Consider.

[10] Original reads, With huntis up.

[11] Lumps.

[12] Worthless persons.

[13] Smothered.

[14] Put the barnacles on you, as on a restive horse.

[15] So the "Calendar," but Chalmers, in quoting, reads, probably correctly, "stomach."

[16] Word illegible.

[17] It was a mediÆval superstition, especially in France, that the English possessed tails, which had been affixed to their persons as a punishment for their ill-treatment of a saint; the names of St. Augustine and St. Thomas of Canterbury were used indifferently in this connection. Cf. Mr. George Neilson's "Caudatus Anglicus: A MediÆval Slander."

[18] German. Black Riders, or heavy cavalry.

[19] Ps. xliii. 1.

[20] E. "Considering what the body may without heart, which was cause ... that till dinner I had used little talk." So also French, but Latin as in Scots.

[21] E. Adds after "letters," " ... as though there had been a meaning to pursue him."

[22] L. and F. Omit "He desired ... refusit it."

[23] E. "The Lord Luse, Houstoun, and the son of Caldwell, and about forty horse came to meet me, and he told me that he was sent to one day o' law from the father, which should be this day," &c. L. and F. as in Scots.

[24] E. Omits "I see ... company."

[25] E. Omits "yesternight;" L. "heri;" F. "hier."

[26] E. ... "Whether it were for any good appointment that he came, and whether I had not taken Paris and Gilbert to write, and that I sent Joseph."

L. "Item cur venisrem? an reconciliationis causa? ac nominatim, an tu hic esses? An familiÆ catalogum fecissem? An Paridem et Gilbertum acceptissem, qui mihi scriberent? an Josephum dimissura essem?"

F. "Item pour quoy j'estoye venue, et si c'estoit pour faire une reconciliation; si vous estiez icy; et si j'avoye faict quelque rolle de mes domestiques; si j'avois prins Paris et Gilbert, afin qu'ils m'escrivissent; et si je ne vouloye pas licentier Joseph."

[27] Scots has a marginal note, "This berer will tell you sumwhat upon this," which appears in the English text and is omitted in the other versions.

[28] This berer will tell you somewhat upon this. [Marginal note in original.]

[29] E. "He said that he did dream, and that he was so glad to see me that he thought he should die—indeed, that he had found fault with me." L. and F. as in S.

[30] E. "You have well pardoned them." F. and L. as in S.

[31] E. "And at the last repent, and rebuke himself by his repentance." L. and F. as in S.

[32] E. "The rest, as Will Hiegate hath confessed; but it was the next day that he came hither." L. and F. as in S.

[33] E. omits "I trow ... Presoner."

[34] E. "He denyeth it, and saith that he had already prayed them to think no such matter of him." L. and F. as in S.

[35] E. "And indeed it was said that I refused to have him let blood." L. and F. as in S.

[36] L. "Praesidium." F. "Forteresse."

[37] E. "By that false race that would do no less to yourself." L. "A gentle illa perfida, quae non minore contentione te cum de hoc ipso aget." F. "Par ceste nation infidele, qui avec non moindre opiniastretÉ debatra le mesme avec vous."

[38] E. Adds after "greitly"—"but I had begun it this morning."

[39] E. Adds after "all out of him"—"I have known what I would. I have taken the worms out of his nose."

[40] E. "We are tied to with two false races. The good yure {goujere} untye us from them. God forgive me, and God knit us together forever." L. "Diabolus nos sejungat, ac nos conjugat Deus in perpetuum," &c. F., "Le diable nous vueille separer, et que Dieu nous conjoingne À jamais," &c.

[41] E. "I am weary, and am asleep." L. "Ego nudata sum, ac dormitum eo." F., "Je suis toute nuË, et m'en vay coucher." [The Latin and French translation mistook "irkit" for "nakit."]

[42] E. "He is not much the worse, but he is ill arrayed." L. "Non magnopere deformatus est, multum tamen accepit." F. "Il n'a pas estÉ beaucoup rende diforme, toutesfois il en a pris beaucoup."

[43] L. "Propinqui." F. "Parent."

[44] E. "By his bolster, and he lieth at the further side of the bed." L. "Ad pedes ejus." F. "A ses pieds."

[45] E. "The talk of Sir James Hamilton of the ambassador." L. and F. as in S.

E. "Lord of Lusse." L. "Lussae Comarchus." F. "Le prevost de Lusse."

[46] E. "You may well go and see sick folk." L. "Bella huiusmodi hominum visitatio." F. "Voyla une belle visitation de telles gens." [L. and F. translators confusing sik (sick) and sik (such).]

[47] E. "And said, 'One of his folk that hath left you this day.'" L. "Respondit, unus eorum qui te reliquerunt." F. "Respondit, c'est l'un de ceux qui vous ont laissÉe."

[48] E. "To my tedious talk." L. "Ad institutum meum odiosum." F. "À ma deliberation odieuse."

[49] E. Omits "or I did." L. and F. as in S.

[50] E. "No more." L. "Ne saepius." Fr. "Ne ... si souvent."

[51] E. "Till after tomorrow." L. "In diem perendinum." F. "Encor deux jours."

[52] E. "More pleasantly." L. "Valde ferociter." F. "Fort asprement."

[53] E. "Make but one bed." L. "Communem fore lectum." F. "Ne faisions plus qu'un lict."

[54] F. "But did fear lest, considering the threatening which he made in case we did agree together, he would make them feel the small account they have made of him, and that he would persuade me to pursue some of them." L. "Sed in timore futuros quod comitatus fuisset, si aliquando inter nos concordes essemus, se daturum operam ut intelligerent quam parvi eum aestimÂssent; item quod mihi consuluisset ne gratiam quorundam seorsum a se expeterem." F. "Ains seroient en crainte de ce qu'il m'auroit suivy. Et si nous pouvions estre d'acord ensemble, qu'il pourroit donner ordre, qu'ils entendroient combien peu ils l'avoient estimÉ. Item de ce qu'il m'avoit conseillÉ, que je ne recerchasse la bonne grace d'aucuns sans luy."

[55] E. "Than you think." L. and F. as in S.

[56] E. "He giveth me certain charges (and these strong) of that I fear even to say that his faults be published; but there be that commit some secret faults, and fear not to have them spoken of so lowdely, and that there is speech of greate and small." L. "Interim me attingit in loco suspecto; idque ad vivum hactenus proloquutus est, sua crimina esse palam; sed sunt qui majora committant, et opinantur ea silentio tegi; et tamen homines de magnis juxta et parvis loquuntur." F. "Cependant il m'a donnÉ attainte du lieu suspect, et a jusques icy discouru bien au vif, que ces fautes sont congreÜes; mais qu'il y en a qui en commettent de plus grandes, encores qu'ils estiment qu'elles soient cachÉes par silence; et toutesfois que les hommes parlent des grands aussi bien des petits."

[57] E. "To conclude, for assurety he mistrusteth her of that that ye know, and for his life." L. and F. as in S.

[58] E. "He was very merry and glad." L. and F. as in S.

[59] E. Adds after "speak"—"Now, as far as I perceive.

{J'ay bien la vogue avec vous[64]} Guess you whether I shall not
{I may do much without you. } be suspected."

[60] E. "For I think upon nothing but grief if you be at Edinburgh." L. and F. as in S.

[61] E. Omits "Be not ... credit."

[62] E. Omits from "Remember you" to the end.

[63] F. Mais pour tout cela Je me vous accuserai ni de peu de souvenance ni de peu de soigne et moins encore de vostre promesse violee que ce qu'il vous plaist mest agreable et sont mes penses tant volonterement, aux vostres asubjectes que je veulx presupposer que tout ce que vient de vous procede non par aucune des causes susdictes ains pour telles qui son justes et raisoinables et telles que je desie moy.

[64] This is a comment in the margin, perhaps a quotation from the French version shown to the Commissioners. According to Mr. T. F. Henderson, it is in Cecil's handwriting. ("The Casket Letters and Mary Queen of Scots," p. 78.)

[65] [65b] [65c] P. F. "Autrement j'estimeray que cela se faict par mon malheureux destin, et par la faveur des astres envers celles, qui toutesfois n'ont une tierce partie de loyautÉ, et volontÉ que j'ay de vous obËir; si elles, comme si j'estoye une second amye de Jason, malgrÉ moy, occupent le premier lieu de faveur; ce que je ne dy, pour vous a comparer a cet homme en l'infelicitÉ qu'il avoit, ny moy avec une femme toute esloignÉe de misericorde, comme estoit celle-la," &c. L. "Alioqui suspicabor fieri malo meo fato, et siderum favore erga illas (quae nec tertiam habent partem fidelitatis, et voluntatis tibi obsequendi, quam ego habeo) ut ipsae, velut secunda Jasonis amica, me invitÂ, priorem apud te locum gratiae occupaverint; nec hoc eo dico, quo te cum homine, e qu ille erat infelicitate, comparem, nec me cum muliere tam aliena a misericordia quam illa erat."

[66] [66b] [66c] P. F. has no sentence corresponding to "mak gude watch," and proceeds, "Comme l'oyseau eschappÉ de la cage, ou la tourtre qui est sans compagne, ainsi je demeureray seule, pour pleurer votre absence, quelque brieve qu'elle puisse estre." L. also has no expression for "mak gude watch," but reads, "Si avis evaserit e cavea autsine compare, velut turtur, ego remanebo sola ut lamenter absentiam tuam quamlibet brevem."

The English translation at Hatfield follows the Hatfield French version closely. The two most important passages run thus: "Otherwise,[65c] I wold think that my yll luck, and the fayre behavior of those that have not the thirde parte of the faythfulness and voluntary obedience that I beare unto you, shall have wonne the advantage over me of the second Loover of Jason.... Send me[66c] word tomorrow early in the morning how you have don for I shall think long. And watche well if the byrde shall fly out of his cage or without his mate, as the turtle shall remayne alone to lament and morne for absence how short soever it be."

[67] F. "Je ne vous lay peu dire pour sÇavoir comment je me gouvernerois." (I could not tell you, in order to know how to govern myself.)

[68] F. "Et si vous ne me mondes ce soir ce que volles que jeu faisse je m en deferay au hazard de la fayre entreprandre ce qui pourroit nuire a ce a quoy nous tandons tous deux {and if you do not send me word this night what you will that I shall do, I will rid myself of it at the hazard of making her undertake that which might be hurtful to that whereunto we both do tend (Laing)} et quant ella sera mariee je vous suplie donnes qune opinion sur aultrui ne nuise en votre endroit a ma constance."

[69] F. in Record Office, "M'a preschÈ que c'estoit une folle entreprise, et qu'avecques mon honneur Je ne vous pourries Jamaiis espouser, veu qu'estant mariÉ vous m'amenies et que ses gens ne l'endureroient pas et que les seigneurs se dediroient" P. F. "Il me remonstra, que c'estoit une folle entreprise, et que pour mon honneur, Je ne vous pourvoye prendre À mary, puis que vous estiez mariÉ, ny aller avec vous, et que ses gens mesmes ne le souffriroient pas voire que les Seigneurs contrediroyent Á ce que en seroit proposÉ." E. at Hatfield, "And thereupon hath preached unto me that it was a foolish entreprise, and that with mine honour I could never marry you, seeing that being married you did carry me away. And that his folk would not suffer it, and that the Lords would unsay themselves, and would deny that they had said."

[70] F. in Record Office, "Ce incertains nouvelles." P. F. "Ces nouvelles ceremonies." E. at Hatfield, "These new ceremonies."

[71] F. "Homme."

[72] F. "Quant À jouer le mien, je sÇay com me jÈ m'y dois gouverner, mÀ souvenant de la faÇon que les choses ont estÉ delibereÉs."

[73] F. Adds "et tenir captive."

[74]P. F. "veu."

[75]Record Office F. "promis."

[76]P. F. "homme."

[77]Ny?

[78]Rochelle text has "affection" wrongly.

[79]Buchanan, "luy" only. Rochelle text, "lui le fair."

[80]Read "Mon pis subject"?

[81]Buch., "fainte."

[82]Buch., "ont fait."

[83]Buch., "Pour son profit elle."

[84]Scots translation, "And not the less, my heart, ye doubt of my constance."

[85]Buch., "vous la."

[86]Buch., "la constance."

[87]Buch. inserts "receu."

[88]Text of sextain corrupt.

[89]Omitted in Rochelle version as corrupt.

[90]Buch., "envoy."

[91]Buch., "mestimez legier que le voy."

[92]Buch., "viuray, &".

[93]Scots—"For him I will stryve aganis wan-weird."

[94]Rochelle version to read "luy tout."

[95]Buch., "lesser."

[96]Buch., "Que m'en pensa ... & frayeur."

[97]Rochelle text, "et vostre ... de la mienne suivi," and later version "la mien suivre."

[98]Man.

[99]Think.

[100]Sweet.

[101]Till.